Vehicle body



F. STEIN ECKE VEHICLE BODY Sept. 29, 1936.

renfar' Patented Sept. 29, 1936 2,055,594

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE VEHICLE BODY Fritz Steinecke, Sindelfingen, near Stuttgart,

Germany, assignor to Daimler Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart-Unterturkheim, Germany, a company of Germany Application June 14, 1932, Serial No. 617,167 In Germany June 15, 1931 1 Claim. (Cl. 280-106) The present invention relates to vehicles, espemembers and are secured to the cross sill memcially to vehicles with frameless bodies such as bers a by means of flanges or round nuts e or motor omnibuses and trolley buses, the body otherwise, the cross sill members being spaced frame work of which comprises cross sills and apart parallel to one another.

5 window frame members which are preferably in For stiffening the side walls, auxiliary longi- 5 one piece with the roof cross members and longitudinal member 1, serving as an outer frame, tudinal frame members. car line sill members g beneath the windows and The longitudinal sill members are of tubular upper reinforcing strips h are provided. section, pass through the cross sill members and The members f, g and h are carried around are provided with external screw threads on the whole body or only along the side walls. The 10 which flanges are screwed for securing the cross body is furtherly stiffened by reinforcing memmembers to the longitudinal members. bers i and bridge members k which form a self- The tubular section of the longitudinal memsupporting device together with the side walls. bers offers the advantage of being resistant The suspension springs for the front and back against bending in all directions and at the same axles are secured to the tubular longitudinal sill 15 time allowing of a simple and useful connection members by sockets Z, encircling the longitudinal thereof with the cross sill members. The longisill members, transverse strut rods m being protudinal sill members are, in the preferred convided between the sockets. The wheels are prostruction continuous. vided at the outer sides of the tubular members b The lower horizontal portion of the cross memand beween two adjacent vertical frame mem- 2o hers is made so deep or otherwise provided with bers b and between two adjacent vertical frame a section such that the openings for the longimembers a. tudinal sill members do not weaken the cross The arrangement offers the advantage that the sills. The connection of the longitudinal and driving units such as the engine can be accomcross sill members by the screwed flanges provides modated between the tubular sill members in a 25 an opportunity of regulating in a very simple suitable manner, for instance between the tubular manner the distance apart of the cross members. longitudinal sill members at the end of the ve- The suspension springs of the wheels are suphicle. There may be provided two or more drivported in a most advantageous manner by means ing axles, one or more engines being fitted. The

of sockets embracing the tubular sill members. same type of body may be provided for closed 30 In the drawing is shown by way of example a vehicles or open vehicles, all these types being vehicle body of the closed type constructed in within the scope of the invention.

accordance with the invention. What I claim is:-

Fig. 1 is a plan view, In a vehicle, a self supporting body comprising Fig. 2 is a part side elevation, in combination cross sill members having open- 35 Fig. 3 is a front end View, ings therein, tubular longitudinal sill members Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section taken on the passed through said openings, fixing means for line 4--4 of Fig. 1. securing the longitudinal and cross sill members Referring to the drawing, the body frame comtogether, sockets for receiving the ends of leaf prises cross sill members a of channel section suspension springs, said sockets embracing the 40 with laterally extending flanges forming together longitudinal sill members in opposition to one with the vertical window frame members 12, also another in spaced relationship Connecting of channel section and provided with lateral the suspension springs to the longitudinal sill flanges, and with the upper roof cross members 0, members in the regions of the axles and distance closed ring frame members. The cross sill memrods connected to the opposed sockets for prebers a are connected together by longitudinal venting he latte! from turning on the R sill members constructed as steel tubes 11 which tudinal sill members. pass through openings provided in the cross sill FRITZ STEINECKE. 

